CAMILLE with greta garbo. i'm trying to make my way through time magazine's 100 greatest films of all time.it was great but the whole time i thought, 'this is LA TRAVIATA. it is too similar not to be.' luckily wikipedia confirmed that verdi did, in fact, adapt his opera from the same source, alexandre dumas' La dame aux Camélias.

Not perfect (actually, I didn't expect perfection) but very funny... good to see a couple of talented women (Tina Fey and Amy Poehler) in a world ruled by men like Judd Apatow, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Jack Black, Will Ferrell and all those guys.

I got 2001,Man from Snowy RIver, My Left Foot and Return to Witch Mountain2001: very goood except i'm not a fan of endingMfSR - Australiana at its best. Very aussie and a good australian taleMLF - Day-lewis' performance was onlt susbstantual thing in film, otherwise measly plotRtWM - Bette Davis reduiced to this. I was almost in tears. Quite gastly.

I haven't rented a movie in forever (I see them for free in the theatre, so I try and catch them there.) Honestly, it must've been Junebug a few months ago. Which I really enjoy. Some friends hadn't heard of it, and we happened to be talking about Amy Adams so...

Adaptation, which was mind-bending but wonderful. Meryl Streep in particular was extremely enjoyable. The mind-bending effect was compounded by the movie ending and the television flipping back to The Colbert Report, during an interview with Charlie Kaufman about Synecdoche, New York. It was a good thing I wasn't stoned.

Encounters at the End of the World tonight. The temp's been hovering around zero the past few days, and we now have snow on the ground, so I thought it might warm me up to watch a movie about someplace even colder!

Didn't like it and was surprised Tilda got some awards traction for it. I think of all genres, thrillers are the hardest to make because so many of them start off strong and then end up being ridiculous.- Sean C.

Anything with Antonio Banderas and his testosterone is enjoyable for me, but this was overblown and disjointed. Where it had the simplicity of Desperado it was fine, but then it would get all self-important and overstuffed.

I just watched Kung Fu Panda, which was good. (Why are female voices so undistinctive in these things? [Ellen and Holly Hunter aside.] I didn't realise it was Jolie till the credits told me. Or Lucy Liu.) Also have The Edge of Love waiting.

Transsiberian...So very well reviewed, but I was frustrated by not understanding why Jessie's character did certain things, by Roy's obliviousness, and the general string-pulling, as with most thrillers.

Thanks to the magic that is Netflix, the last movie I rented was two movies at the same time: The Wind Will Carry Us (digging my way through the Kiarostami I haven't seen) and The Decline of the American Empire (for no particular reason at all). Liked them both, as one "likes" highly intellectual art films; found out that 1:00 AM is the wrong time to start watching a slow-moving, symbolism-heavy Iranian film.

Next up - for reasons too unspeakably horrible to bring up - is Underworld.

I'm still a Blockbuster visitor (again: Team Abacus!), and I took out Mongol, Shelter, The Band's Visit, and Standard Operating Procedure this week. I'm like a half-hour into Mongol right now, and I'm bored in my mind, but not in my eyes. I'm way, way more of an Atanarjuat guy. (And the camera doesn't always have to be on a moving crane, does it?...)

The Ruins, Death Becomes Her, Prizzi's Honor, Manhattan and I can't remember the other, but I have only watched Death Becomes Her and The Ruins. The Ruins was a pretty good mod-horror, and Death Becomes Her is an all-time favourite. My favourite Streep performance EASILY!

I gave 'Savage Grace' a second viewing on account of my adoration for Julianne Moore, offensive sex and Hugh Dancy. Those qualities aside, I still felt completely uninvolved. I want to love this one, but all I feel is blech.

I also rented 'Mister Lonely' for the first time and thought it was excellent. Far beyond the negative words I'd read. There's something really mesmerizing and uniquely beautiful captured in it. For me the flying nun scenes are some of the best of the year.

Picked up Hancock last night. I never got around to see it in the cinemas because I simply felt the trailer looked a bit stupid... But what a surprise! Just a really joyfull superhero movie. Way better than the overrated Iron Man!

I rather enjoyed it, though it is one of those films that you know is going to make you angry with its political messages that you can't do anything about... The scene of Reese-wonderful-Witherspoon crying as she is rejected by an icier-than-Miranda-Priestly Meryl Streep is just gold. Gold I say!